No (kana)

, in hiragana, and , in katakana, are Japanese kana, both representing one mora. In the gojūon system of ordering of Japanese syllables, it occupies the 25th position, between ね (ne) and は (ha). It occupies the 26th position in the iroha ordering. Both represent the sound [no]. It is highly similar in form to the Kangxi radical 丿, radical 4.

Form Rōmaji Hiragana Katakana
Normal n-
(な行 na-gyō)
no
のう, のぅ
のお, のぉ
のー, の~
ノウ, ノゥ
ノオ, ノォ
ノー, ノ~
no
hiragana
katakana
transliterationno
hiragana origin
katakana origin
Man'yōgana努 怒 野 乃 能 笑 荷
spelling kana野原のノ (Nohara no no)
unicodeU+306E, U+30CE
braille
Note: These Man'yōgana originally represented syllables with one of two different vowel sounds, which merged in later pronunciation

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing の
Stroke order in writing ノ

To write の, begin slightly above the center, stroke downward diagonally, then upward, and then curve around as indicated by the arrows.

To write ノ, simply do a swooping curve from top-right to bottom left.

Other communicative representations

  • Full Braille representation
の / ノ in Japanese Braille
の / ノ
no
のう / ノー
/nou
Other kana based on Braille
にょ / ニョ
nyo
にょう / ニョー
nyō/nyou
Character information
Preview
Unicode nameHIRAGANA LETTER NOKATAKANA LETTER NOHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NOCIRCLED KATAKANA NO
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode12398U+306E12494U+30CE65417U+FF8913032U+32E8
UTF-8227 129 174E3 81 AE227 131 142E3 83 8E239 190 137EF BE 89227 139 168E3 8B A8
Numeric character referenceののノノノノ㋨㋨
Shift JIS[1]130 20482 CC131 10983 6D201C9
EUC-JP[2]164 206A4 CE165 206A5 CE142 2018E C9
GB 18030[3]164 206A4 CE165 206A5 CE132 49 153 5584 31 99 37
EUC-KR[4] / UHC[5]170 206AA CE171 206AB CE
Big5 (non-ETEN kana)[6]198 210C6 D2199 102C7 66
Big5 (ETEN / HKSCS)[7]199 85C7 55199 202C7 CA

History

Like every other hiragana, the hiragana の developed from man'yōgana, kanji used for phonetic purposes, written in the highly cursive, flowing grass script style. In the picture on the left, the top shows the kanji written in the kaisho style, and the centre image is the same kanji written in the sōsho style. The bottom part is the kana for "no", a further abbreviation.

Hentaigana and gyaru-moji variant kana forms of no can also be found.

Usage

Usage of の in place of (and 犬 in place of 狗) in Taipei.

の is a dental nasal consonant, articulated on the upper teeth, combined with a close-mid back rounded vowel to form one mora.

In the Japanese language, as well as forming words, の may be a particle showing possession. For example, the phrase "わたしでんわ” watashi no denwa means "my telephone."

の has also proliferated on signs and labels in the Chinese-speaking world, especially in Taiwan because of its historical connections with Japan. It is used in place of the Modern Chinese possessive marker 的 de or Classical Chinese possessive marker 之 zhī, and の is pronounced in the same way as the Chinese character it replaces. This is usually done to "stand out" or to give an "exotic/Japanese feel", e.g. in commercial brand names, such as the fruit juice brand 鲜の每日C, where the の can be read as both 之 zhī, the possessive marker, and as 汁 zhī, meaning "juice".[8] In Hong Kong, the Companies Registry has extended official recognition to this practice, and permits の to be used in Chinese names of registered businesses; it is thus the only non-Chinese symbol to be granted this treatment (aside from punctuation marks with no pronunciation value).[9]

References

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